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As an Agile Coach/Sr. Agility Lead/Scrum Master, with deep technical background, you'll act as a servant leader for your team(s) by facilitating clear communication to management and to the team. You will take ownership of your team's performance by understanding the intricacies of the business and technology. You will act as a catalyst in changing the team and organizational culture towards agile delivery.
Our Corporate & Investment Bank builds and maintains the technology that helps us safely service the world's important corporations, governments and institutions. CIB's solutions help the bank provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk, and extend liquidity in markets spanning over 100 countries around the world. The position is within JPMorgan's CIB Payments - Digital Channels and Connectivity organization, responsible for mission-critical client facing payments applications. The role requires working with multiple large teams on multiple simultaneous product development value streams.
Job Responsibilities
- Works with the Sr. Product Managers, Product Owners, and Engineering Leads to align teams with the product vision, charter, sprint goals, and other necessary information
- Facilitate groups of 30 or more and coach multiple teams across the product line
- Creates an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
- Champions continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coaches teams to conduct continuous improvement events
- Seeks opportunities for improvement to the overall effectiveness of teams and the organization
- Communicates organizational impediments to leadership; clears impediments for the team
- Embraces the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instills the same in the team(s) you coach
- Coach product owners in creation and maintenance of the product backlog, including empirical planning
- Appreciate the depths of Agile practices and principles, and help teams appreciate them
- Teach systems thinking and servant leadership
- Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution to help the team become a high-performance team
- Handle multi-project delivery as well as Agility coaching responsibilities.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
- Strong familiarity and adherence to core Agile values and principles
- Experience as a practicing Agility Lead/Scrum Master on a team
- Experience in scaled agile frameworks
- Ability to coach and mentor
- Current or previous technical development experience
- Exposure to modern engineering practices like Unit Test-Driven Development, Acceptance Test-Driven Development, and Continuous Integration
- A mindset of servant leadership
- Expert with Agile and Scrum framework and its application in Product Development and delivery organization
- Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels
- Experience with JIRA, Tableau, JIRA Align, Lucid spark (or equivalent) and Confluence
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Relevant industry certifications such as CSM, SAFe etc.
- Leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution, and more to serve the team(s)
- Knowledge of industry-wide technology strategies
- Ability to leverage capabilities across the firm to solve local problems
- Certifications: Certified Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist, ICP ATF - Agile Team Facilitation, ICP ACC Certification - Agile Coaching
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across investment banking, wholesale payments, markets and securities services. The world's most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk and extend liquidity in markets around the world.
